Error Handling

[gdr01]

OK, this is real simple, but for some reason it's not working for me.
I just started playing around with VB6, and decided it was time to put some error checking in the code but.....

I can't seem to raise the error "flag" so that I can trap an error.

I even went so far as to create a new project with only a couple of lines in the Form-Load page.

ie

on error goto err_chk:
err.raise 71

err_chk:
msgbox.....

this doesn't work, I get the default error msg.

I've stepped through, and sure enough, it's blowing up
at the "err.raise" line.

Is there something that I'm missing ????

Thanx in advance

GDR01

[Hack]

Err.Raise is something that is used, typically, when creating an ActiveX object, or a component. Standard error trapping is the conventional method for handling errors in Standard VB projects.

[Si_the_geek]

To force an error you should use the ERROR function, eg: " ERROR 23 " would cause error 23 to occur.

err.raise forces the error to be sent to the calling sub/function etc, so should only be used when you don't want to handle the error within that sub.